What is Witnessing?

How is it different from therapy or coaching?

Witnessing is a relational space to meet anything happening within you in gracious, reverent presence. When we return to safe relationship, we grow more equipped to build the capacity to be with what is, to transform freeze into flow, awe, and wonder, and to nurture our own sources of light. Being seen is one of our core, universal needs. This is the prayer of all witnessing sessions; to meet this need in safe containment, beyond pathology. Imagine pulling up a chair at a teahouse, taking off your mask, and with the attuned-other sitting beside you, whatever arises has room to breathe.

Here, my role as witness is to collaborate with your inner and innate wisdom - what is called Interoception in traditional Psychology. Our work together springs from a relationship built upon freedom of expression, mindful presence, the posture of embodied liberation, and radical honesty.

This is a touchstone for belonging, a place where parts of you who have felt misunderstood or unseen will not be alone. If you’ve been feeling the pressure to change, to grow, to let go—and are seeking sanctuary in relationship—this space is crafted for you.

  • A reflective ritual, like bodywork for the soul

  • A safe, trauma informed, relational touchstone

  • A place to slow down, to speed up, to scream, to laugh, to cry

  • A landing pad upon which to be wild - embraced in your mystical form, beyond pathology or diagnosis

  • A space to get existential, root into your purpose, be seen for the truth of who you have been, are, and have the courage to be

  • A supportive cocoon from which you may emerge more awake to + in embrace of your own innate worth, gifts, and sense of resilience

The witnessing container is:

I see the word “collapse” in your offerings - what is collapse? And what does it mean to be witnessed in it?

When I engage with the word collapse, I am referring to any rupture of a system, relationship, or way of being that was core to your sense of belonging. Collapse Psychology is, “the study of human behavior and responses to ongoing and sudden collapse, including social, environmental, and systemic breakdown.” (visit source collapsepsychology.org for fascinating reads and, I hope, a sigh of relief). If any of the above resonates with you or a loved one, you are among a wide web of beings who are navigating the breaking and making of new worlds.

Testimonials / Love Notes ҉

  • Sammi is like the long, soothing exhale after a hot summer, when the breeze of a new season brushes your cheek. Their gifts are expansive and bountiful with a bright, piercing love.

    ~ Penny

  • What is it like to be witnessed by Sammi? It's like walking. And Sammi is like moonlight - on a dark night when the moon peeks through the windows and clouds, Sammi illuminates the path already there in front of me. It was hard to see before my eyes adjusted. But I knew the moon was there even when the clouds passed back over, and Sammi’s voice ushered me further. Like a soft glow. Warm. I feel safe. They build me up, but not with fluff - rather of stones, shaped by the river and stacked. Bit by bit with their honest and true encouragement. The ability Sammi has to be a mirror and a friend along this quiet night walk makes it one of peaceful nature.

    ~ Emmy

  • I’ve never felt more seen by anyone than I have by Sammi. Being truly seen is vulnerable, but it’s also incredibly freeing. Sammi has the remarkable ability to tune into energy, body language, eye contact, tone of voice—the subtle cues that often reveal more than we realize. It’s as if there’s nowhere to hide, but that’s only good news if you’re ready to stop hiding any part of yourself. Sammi has a gift for uncovering blind spots we may not even know exist. To fully embrace and soften into this process, we need someone who can mirror these parts of ourselves with kindness, patience, and empathy. Sammi is exactly that person. They are non-judgmental, deeply compassionate, and warm—having navigated their own struggles and emerged with a desire to help others do the same. They embody unconditional love and it is a blessing to be witnessed by them while traversing the waves of life.

    ~ Kelly

  • Being witnessed by Sammi is being witnessed by true Love: Someone that knows and sees you with deep empathy, because they have known and seen themselves with deep empathy. When I started working with Sammi, the deepest medicine was being seen in all my purely honest, chaotic, broken, vain, lustful, angry selves. Everything is invited, everything is embraced, everything can breathe and dance. Working with them, I got to play again. To flow again. To make silly noises, to make gross noises, to reclaim that self who doesn’t want to perform adulthood, perform humanness. I could do that because I know the Rock that Sammi is— that they let themselves be all the flavors of human. Being with Sammi is being with your own Truest Self. It's allowance. It’s healing of all the parts hidden, and it’s so so safe.

    ~ Wendall

  • Sammi is a prism. What passes through them is transmuted into something larger and more radiant- just from their mere existence. Sammi is solid and fluid. A shapeshifter who only ever gives their best and most.

    ~ Lindsay